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Earlier this week I set up my first Edmodo page. I first heard of the site over the summer and decided to give it a shot this year. I used a blog for my class last year, but it sounded like Edmodo could give me a little more flexibility. I admit it had a bit of a learning curve, but after playing around for a bit I realized it is fairly intuitive. I quickly set up two groups, one for my English I and one for English IV.

So far, I have only introduced the site to my seniors. Before diving in head-on, I wanted to run a test and my senior class is pretty small. I figured they would be the perfect test subjects. As all of my students receive an email address through the school, I assigned the Edmodo sign-up as homework this weekend. So far, 2/3 of my students have logged in and signed up.

Right now, my page is hosting our class assignments, including files. I love love love that I can upload files and let the students download them at their leisure. This allows me to save paper, which I adore. I can also post all the files in one assignment note, making it easy for students to keep track of the work for each assignment. Plus, now no one has to ask me for extra copies-they are right there on the web!

I also posted a link to our Goodreads group and an assignment to join our private group. I have to tell you, it is so much easier posting all of this online instead of writing on a HW board at school!

So, do you use Edmodo? Any tips or tricks? Any cool ideas I should try? I am planning an attempt to use it as a backchannel while we watch a film later this marking period, but otherwise I am tapped out. I’d love to hear from other users!

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I’m trying to use Edmodo this year with my 7th and 8th graders. Right now 4 of my 7 eighth graders have logged on. I sent out an email over the the summer to the parents, asking them to let their kids use the site. I’m not sure why the three haven’t signed up. I’m going to work on that. I teach in a small private school and we have some extremely protective/sheltering parents. Most of my 7th graders are not on Facebook or even have their own email.

We’ll see how it goes. I love all the features of edmodo and how much it can streamline things. I have my class website on PBWorks and that seems to be working quite well for uploading files.